The Heart in deep freezer:
Truth is a statement and is as unique as darkness. Delve deep into darkness to know whether it has absorbed all the lights and colours (or) had renounced them all? When this understanding dawns, truth is born. Till such time truth remains merely as a statement.
Shadows cannot manifest in pitch darkness. Thoughts in human minds can cast shadows, lacking illumination of a different kind and not the one from a light source. The predominant human emotions such as hate, pride, sadness, anger, defeat, disappointment, guilt, subjugation etc only act in the pitch darkness to cast those shadows. There is a puppet master to these shadows – fear.
Fear, the chief architect employs mistrust, ill-will, thanklessness and lack of self confidence to design and cast these shadows in the minds. If life is a tree, then the stem & branches become the lineage. The hidden roots not only nourish the tree but water and germinate seeds of traits in any individual .We call this as genetic manifestation.
A confused mind develops the habit of using different yardstick for different persons & times. This confusion is not because of lack of analytical skills but due to the tendency to fudge reality with perceived hurts or deemed hurts some might experience. Such persons do forget that even this sort of selective gradation might be hurting someone else. This predilection to take off at a tangent, hyperbola or parabola leads to nowhere but distancing away from close contacts. The essence is to understand that ‘some’ and ‘someone else’ together constitute a family.
This analogy might help a little. What happens when a prism is used to view an image? It gets split, coloured and distorted. For the mind seeing only shadows, distorted images offer non-existent comfort and safety. They don’t stop with this. The highly attuned ones develop the habit of using a microscope instead of a telescope. Microscope magnifies and terrifies; telescope shrinks as a point of light. Which will be better – the magnification or an insignificant point of light?
Life is all about riding the learning curve. However deeply mired the person might be, there are remedies. But the difficult part is to shed the darkness willingly without expecting an overnight miracle. It starts with opening up of the eyes to take a fresh look at the world without the prism or the microscope. Use the selective amnesia technique, wantonly to shelve preset notions from the mind.
The Insect-animosity:
Insects abound around us like the countless bacteria. In both, useful and harmful types are present. Other than these classifications, we may need one more – nuisance type. Cockroach, house fly and mosquito are harmful as well as a nuisance.
The harmful part of the above mentioned insects is related to health – they remain healthy and pass on the diseases to us. The harmful part is tackled on a war footing using insecticides.
The nuisance part begs description, as each one of them has a differing style of attack. The fly and mosquito swatting is the simple standard practice in all the households. But the swatting of cockroaches need a broom and invariably beaten to death!
To live up to the name, the mosquitoes drone around our ears, searching for suitable landing site. After hearing the music you feel a sting or it gets crushed depending up on whoever has the quickest reflex action.
This heat-seeking guided missile goes about the war on human beings on 24 X 7 basis. The ‘tortoise’, being proverbially slow is of no avail. The ‘bottled’ magic has not done much to diminish its enthusiasm. Still the mosquito stings with a contaminated needle and gets ready to sing for another victim. A tennis elbow results if you resort to combat the menace with an ‘electronic bat’!
Though not similarly nicknamed, the flies copy-cat the humming of mosquitoes. Its main hobby is to land and merely irritate on any exposed part of the human anatomy.
Its colour and the compound eyes start the ball of annoyance rolling in us. To sweeten our welling anger, it mockingly wipes its antennae on its forelegs. Like migratory birds they descend in a group and take turn in carrying on with these antics. In the end, we get our leg and arm muscles brought to shape from incessant wielding of the fly swat. For a swarm of flies, the pest-o-mat is of no match.
When serious, it tastes edible items left uncovered and while partaking the a la carte meal leaves a host of germs as if to settle the bill!
The odd insect out of this group is the cockroach which has its own unique style to irritate and intimidate.
Whatever be the state of agitation in the mind, one cannot hide admiration for its ability to contort, compact and burst in to freedom from the hell hole of a sewerage drain.
Then it finds its way in to cupboards or stowed carton boxes as a fugitive from law. The drain hole or a dinner plate means the same thing to it – an invitation for food.
The bolder ones mock at us by waving their feelers, throwing a challenge for a sword fight. Their challenge always dies at the end of a fat broomstick.
So far we have seen the reactions of a normal person, who has dislike to these insects having harmful intent and nuisance values. Now let us get the views of people with different mindset:
A philosophically oriented person will ignore or accept their presence saying, “live and let them also live”.
An entomologist will spend time watching every move they make, to study their life and leave them alive for another scientist to gain knowledge – so no harm done.
One in the Public Health Division will look for ways to annihilate the menace so that he can also sleep peacefully.
The one carrying out R & D in a Health Products Division will come up with new medicines to kill them all!
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